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ἐλέγχω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλέγχω

Structure: ἐλέγχ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to disgrace, put to shame, to treat, with contempt, to put, to shame
  2. to cross-examine, question, disproving or reproving, to censure, accuse, to accuse, to be convicted
  3. to bring to the proof, to disprove, confute, to bring convincing proof, to prove

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλέγχω ἐλέγχεις ἐλέγχει
Dual ἐλέγχετον ἐλέγχετον
Plural ἐλέγχομεν ἐλέγχετε ἐλέγχουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐλέγχω ἐλέγχῃς ἐλέγχῃ
Dual ἐλέγχητον ἐλέγχητον
Plural ἐλέγχωμεν ἐλέγχητε ἐλέγχωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐλέγχοιμι ἐλέγχοις ἐλέγχοι
Dual ἐλέγχοιτον ἐλεγχοίτην
Plural ἐλέγχοιμεν ἐλέγχοιτε ἐλέγχοιεν
ImperativeSingular έ̓λεγχε ἐλεγχέτω
Dual ἐλέγχετον ἐλεγχέτων
Plural ἐλέγχετε ἐλεγχόντων, ἐλεγχέτωσαν
Infinitive ἐλέγχειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐλεγχων ἐλεγχοντος ἐλεγχουσα ἐλεγχουσης ἐλεγχον ἐλεγχοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλέγχομαι ἐλέγχει, ἐλέγχῃ ἐλέγχεται
Dual ἐλέγχεσθον ἐλέγχεσθον
Plural ἐλεγχόμεθα ἐλέγχεσθε ἐλέγχονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐλέγχωμαι ἐλέγχῃ ἐλέγχηται
Dual ἐλέγχησθον ἐλέγχησθον
Plural ἐλεγχώμεθα ἐλέγχησθε ἐλέγχωνται
OptativeSingular ἐλεγχοίμην ἐλέγχοιο ἐλέγχοιτο
Dual ἐλέγχοισθον ἐλεγχοίσθην
Plural ἐλεγχοίμεθα ἐλέγχοισθε ἐλέγχοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐλέγχου ἐλεγχέσθω
Dual ἐλέγχεσθον ἐλεγχέσθων
Plural ἐλέγχεσθε ἐλεγχέσθων, ἐλεγχέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐλέγχεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐλεγχομενος ἐλεγχομενου ἐλεγχομενη ἐλεγχομενης ἐλεγχομενον ἐλεγχομενου

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • διαδουμ Εἶθ’ ὦ βέλτιστε, πράττομεν ἄλλο νῦν ἢ τὴν αἱρ́εσιν αὐτῶν ἐλέγχομεν, οὔτε πιθανοῖσ πράγμασιν οὔθ’ ὡμιλημένοισ ὀνόμασι τὰσ κοινὰσ; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 5 1:1)
  • ἴδωμεν ῥᾳστώνησ τε πέρι καὶ χαλεπότητοσ πρὸσ τὸ τοῖσ ὁρῶσιν δοκεῖν ἀποχρώντωσ μεμιμῆσθαι, καὶ κατοψόμεθα ὅτι γῆν μὲν καὶ ὄρη καὶ ποταμοὺσ καὶ ὕλην οὐρανόν τε σύμπαντα καὶ τὰ περὶ αὐτὸν ὄντα καὶ ἰόντα πρῶτον μὲν ἀγαπῶμεν ἄν τίσ τι καὶ βραχὺ πρὸσ ὁμοιότητα αὐτῶν ἀπομιμεῖσθαι δυνατὸσ ᾖ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ, ἅτε οὐδὲν εἰδότεσ ἀκριβὲσ περὶ τῶν τοιούτων, οὔτε ἐξετάζομεν οὔτε ἐλέγχομεν τὰ γεγραμμένα, σκιαγραφίᾳ δὲ ἀσαφεῖ καὶ ἀπατηλῷ χρώμεθα περὶ αὐτά· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. to disgrace

Related

Derived

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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